Shenyang Thermal Resort

Shenyang Thermal Resort is located in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province and northeastern China's largest city, a metropolis of over 8 million people with a historical significance matched by few Chinese cities — as Mukden, it served as the first capital of the Qing dynasty and home of the extraordinary Imperial Palace (UNESCO World Heritage Site), whose scale and preservation rival Beijing's Forbidden City in grandeur while remaining far less visited by international tourists. The bicarbonate-enriched thermal waters here serve a metropolitan population in a city of extraordinary historical depth, where the Palace of the Qing dynasty founders, the martyrs' tombs of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, and the memories of the 1931 Mukden Incident (which triggered Japan's occupation of Manchuria) make Shenyang one of northeast China's most historically resonant and internationally underappreciated capitals. Bathing at Shenyang Thermal Resort in this historically magnificent yet often overlooked city provides a restorative experience in one of China's great imperial capitals, where the thermal mineral traditions complement an extraordinary architectural and historical heritage.